Kütahya is a city in western Turkey with 170,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate), lying on the Porsuk river, at 930 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Kütahya province with 660,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).

The industries of Kütahya have long traditions, going back to ancient times. Kütahya is famous for its kiln products, for its tiles and pottery, which is glazed and multicoloured. Modern industries are sugar refining, tanning, nitrate processing and different products of meerschaum, which is extracted nearby. The local agriculture produces cereals, fruits and sugar beet, in addition is stock raising of much importance. Not far from Kütahya are there important mines extracting lignite. Mission, or barrel, roof tiles A tile is a small, manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as clay or stone used for covering roofs, floors, and walls, or other objects such as tabletops. ... sex is great // Types of pottery Aesthetic and artistic considerations have often been part of the formation of the pottery vessels, however modern mass production techniques have replaced the traditional role of pottery with mechanized reproduction, which has in turn caused the potter to be more focused on the aesthetic... In general use, sugar is taken to mean sucrose, also called table sugar or saccharose, a disaccharide which is a white crystalline solid. ... Tanning is the process of making leather from skin. ... this is a negative ion,NO3- Discussion In inorganic chemistry, nitrates are the salts of nitric acid. ... Meerschaum is a soft white mineral sometimes found floating on the Black Sea, and rather suggestive of sea-foam (lvi eerschaum), whence also the French name for the same substance, ecume de mer. ... Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a grain, technically a caryopsis). ... Popular Japanese fashion magazine throughout the 1990s; the photography of which has recently been reissued in two collections from Phaidon press. ... Two sugar beets - the one on the left has been cultivated to be smoother than the traditional beet, so that it traps less soil. ... Sheep are commonly bred as livestock. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... Coal Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by mining. ...

Kütahya is linked by rail and road with Balikesir 250 km to the west, Konya 450 km to the southeast, Eskisehir 90 km northeast and Ankara 300 km east. Balkesir is a city of approximately 250. ... Konya (also Koniah, Konieh, Konia, and Qunia; historically known as Iconium, Greek: Ικόνιον) is a city in Turkey, on the central plateau of Anatolia. ... EskiÅŸehir is the capital of EskiÅŸehir Province, Turkey. ... Ankara from the Atakule Tower, looking N-NE Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Ä°stanbul. ...

Kütahya's old neighbourhoods is dominated by traditional Ottoman houses made of wood and stucco. The region of Kütahya has large areas of gentle slopes with agricultural land culminating in high mountain ridges to the north and west. Stucco is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water which is applied to a surface in a paste-like consistency when wet and when dry becomes hard. ...

The Kütahya Museum has a fine collection of arts and cultural artefacts from the area. The city's university is named Dumlupınar University and was founded in 1992. Aesop, the ancient Greek writer of fables, is believed to have been born in Kütahya. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Aesop, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle. ...

History

• 3rd millennium BCE: Settled, and known as Kotiaion or Cotyaeum, "the city of the goddess Kotys". It was an important stopover on the road from the Marmara region to Mesopotamia.
• 12th century: Incorporated into the Phrygian kingdom, becoming one of the country's most important cities.
• Around 700: Phrygia collapses, but Kotiaion position as a strong city survives.
• 1071 CE: Conquered by the Seljuqs.
• Around 1095: Lost to the European Crusaders.
• 1182: Reconquered by the Seljuqs.
• 1302: Becomes capital of the Germiyan Turkmen principality.
• 1428: Becomes part of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1514: Sultan Selim I resettles tile-workers from Tabriz in Kütahya and Iznik after defeating the Persians. With this Kütahya emerges as a centre for the Ottoman ceramic industry, producing tiles and faience for mosques, churches and official buildings in places all over the Middle East.
• 19th century: With the fast growth of Eskisehir 90 km away, Kütahya loses much of its regional and economic importance.

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External links

• City of Tiles
• Pictures from Kütahya
• Kutahya Weather Forecast Information